This document discusses Wikimedia Commons, a free digital media collection, and Wikidata, a free knowledge base. It explains that Wikidata uses triples of items, properties, and values to represent knowledge in a structured format. It provides examples of how Wikidata can be used to represent information about people, places, fictional characters, artifacts, and more. The document also discusses how Wikidata represents knowledge in a way that is multilingual and how data can be contributed to Wikidata individually or by importing datasets.
7. What people make with Wikidata
Image gallery of self-portraits of women
Timeline of astrolabes with diameters
Things named after things invented by
Shakespeare
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8. Triples
Item Property Value
Ashmolean Museum named after Elias Ashmole
Oxford coordinate location 51°45'N, 1°15'W
Jane Austen birth date 16 December 1775
Rosetta stone height 112.3 centimetre
Alice Duer Miller VIAF ID 65004869
Prospero present in work The Tempest
Charles Foster Kane inspired by William Randolph Hearst
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9. Things that can have an item in
Wikidata
Human beings
Places
Molecules, species, genes…
Fictional / folkloric / mythological characters
Artefacts
Organisations
Creative works (books, papers, films…)
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15. Contributing to Wikidata
Individual statements or references can be added manually at
Wikidata.org.
Data sets can be imported in bulk using the QuickStatements
tool, by first processing TSV files to replace text names with
Wikidata identifiers.
OpenRefine is the most useful tool for this conversion but Google
Sheets has built-in functions that work with smaller data sets.
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